From: "Randy S. Kiefer" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:50:35 -0500 The CLOCKSS Archive Is Pleased to Announce the Participation of Four New Publishers in Its Digital Preservation Archive: SPIE, IGI Global, Multi-Science Publishing, and the National Academies Press. Full announcements can be found at http://www.clockss.org/clockss/News. *apologies for cross posting* ---------- SPIE SPIE Director of Publications Eric Pepper noted, “SPIE believes that the community of researchers, educators, and students who are involved in the multidisciplinary fields of optics and photonics must have access to the literature of these fields in perpetuity. In fact, we are digitizing our earliest publications at this time in order to expand such access. Participation in CLOCKSS is part of our program to ensure this access into the future.” About SPIE: SPIE is the international society for optics and photonics, founded in 1955 to advance light-based technologies. Serving approximately 180,000 constituents from more than 170 countries, the Society advances emerging technologies through interdisciplinary information exchange, continuing education, publications, patent precedent, and career and professional growth. The SPIE Digital Library includes over 325,000 items from Proceedings of SPIE, SPIE Journals, and SPIE eBooks. http://spie.org ---------- IGI Global Saeed Otufat-Shamsi, IGI Global's Senior Director of Business Development, commented, "IGI Global supports the library's role as the custodians of archived content, ensuring that electronic content is protected for future generations of researchers. We are pleased to partner with CLOCKSS to provide a permanent archive of our electronic scholarly journals and books through one of the most advanced digital preservation initiatives. The solution of a decentralized, geographically disparate preservation model ensures that the digital assets of the community will survive intact." About IGI Global: Since 1988, IGI Global has provided comprehensive research materials on computer science and information technology management, focusing on the ways in which information technology affects human activities and interactions across disciplines. With offices in Hershey, PA, New York City, and Vancouver, BC, IGI Global is a leading multimedia publisher of books, journals, teaching cases, and databases covering the areas of education, social science, library science, healthcare, business management, public administration, and computer science. http://www.igi-global.com/ ---------- Multi-Science Publishing Commented Multi-Science Director Bill Hughes, “The coming of the digital age has provided huge benefits for all engaged in scholarly communication, whether as researchers, librarians or publishers. However, the spectre exists, for future generations, of a landscape of broken links and unretrievable research. CLOCKSS activities make that possibility less likely, so we are pleased to be working with them to ensure that our modest contribution to learning is preserved for the benefit of future generations.” About Multi-Science Publishing: Established for over 50 years, Multi-Science specializes in publishing journals that fill gaps in the scientific literature and are responses to technological developments that call new disciplines into existence. All Multi-Sciences primary journals are fully refereed. As well as journals, Multi-Science publishes books in the same subject areas as its journals. http://www.multi-science.co.uk ---------- National Academies Press Barbara Kline Pope, Executive Director of the National Academies Press, remarked, “We trust CLOCKSS to take care of archiving the nearly 4,000 books that document decades of authoritative information and knowledge of the National Academy of Sciences and its affiliated organizations. In addition, we know that these important works will be accessible if, for some reason, we are no longer able to make them freely available.” About National Academies Press: The National Academies Press (NAP) was created by the National Academies to publish the reports issued by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council, all operating under a charter granted by the Congress of the United States. The NAP publishes more than 200 books a year on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and health, capturing the most authoritative views on important issues in science and health policy. The institutions represented by the NAP are unique in that they attract the nation’s leading experts in every field to serve on their award-winning panels and committees. http://www.nap.edu/ ---------- About CLOCKSS: The CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS) Archive is a not-for-profit joint venture between the world's leading scholarly publishers and research libraries whose mission is to build a sustainable, geographically distributed dark archive with which to ensure the long-term survival of Web-based scholarly publications for the benefit of the greater global research community. http://www.clockss.org